Cigar-holder.



E. E. TALIAFERRO & E. J. GOLDSWORTHY.

CIGAR HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1909;

954,060. Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

INVENTORS Edward E. TaZiafePI-o WITNESSES 4 Ernest Jo/ gGoZdswoPZhZ ATTORNEYS emits STATES PATENT onrion EDWARD E. TALIAFERRQAND ERNEST JOHN GOLDSWORTHY, 0F COlLORAIDO SPRINGS,

COLORADO.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 20, 1909. Serial No. 497,140.

Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD E. TALIA- FERRO and ERNns'rJoHN citizens of the United States, and both residents of Colorado Springs, in the county of El Paso and State. of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Cigar-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention contemplates a cigar holder by which the ashes are retained during the entire period of smoking and until the stump is discarded, the holder requirin no adjustment or other attention, as the cigar is consumed after the cigar has once'been properly applied. he invention in general consists of a tubular finger-piece having a jacket of insulation, a thimble concentrically supported within the finger-piece, having at'one end' spring fingers to bindingly engage the tip of the cigar, and a gauze ash-catcher and holder detachably connected to the op osite end of the thimble, the holder being 0 such size as to completely inclose the body of the o1 ar.

eference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all y the views.

. thimble 11 and an Figure 1 is a perspective View of the finger-piece and attached thimble of our improved cigar holder, showing the cigar in place;-Fig. 2 is a view ofthe gauze ashholder; Fig. 3 is a view of the holder when the finger-piece and thimble in central ngitudinal section and a cigar in place and partially smoked; Fig. 4 is an inner end view of the finger-piece; Fig. 5 is a side view of the finger-piece with the insulation-removed; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary longitudinal section. of "the v holder on anenlarged scale.

More specifically described, the holder consists of a tubul arfinger-piece 10, a

havin an outer acket 13 of insulation, such as cor and is perforated, as shown in Fig. 5, to insure rapid radiation, and provided with T-shaped tongues 14 stamped inwardly at intervals, with the stem of the tongues passing through and bent against the inner side of the thimblell, thus concentrically GOLDSWORTHY, both supporting the thimble within the fingerpiece and providing a substantial air space therebetween. That portion of the thimble 11 at the inner side of the tongues 14 is divided into 'a number of spring-fingers 15 which incline toward the longitudinal axis of the holder and are designed to bindingly engagethe ti latter in smo ring position. The fingers 15 terminate a short distance from the inner end of the finger-piece in order that the finger-piece may serve as a guard to prevent e lips from contacting with the springfingers and bein burned. The outer end portion of the-th1mble has threads stamped regular burning of the cigar will not be in terfered with. The inner end of the holder is provided with a sheet metal binding strip 16 which has threads stam ed therein corresponding to the threads of the thimble, the threads in the binding strip not only onash-catcher andvholder' 12. The finger-piece 10 is of sheet metal" abling the holder to be screwed into and out of the thimble but also forming a lock joint with the gauze.

aving thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

of the cigar and retain the.

about, as shown in Fig. 3, in or or that the 1. The combination of a tubular fingerpiece having cigar-holding means and by which the clgar is carried in the hand, and an ash-holder to envelop the body of the cigar, detachably connected to said means.

2. The combination of a tubular fingerpiece, a thimble supported in the fingerpiece having spring-fingers to bindingly engage the ti of a cigar, and an ash-holder for the b0 y of the cigar, detachably connected to the 'thimble.

3. The combination of-cigar-holding means by which the cigar is carried'between the fingers of the hand in smokin and a gauze ash-holder to envelop the b0 y carried by said means.

4. The combination of a tubular fingerpiece, and a thimble supported within and spaced from the finger-piece, having spring fingers to bindingly engage a cigar.

5. The combination of cigar-holding means by which the cigar is carried between of the cigar;

cigar, detachably connected to said means.

6. The combination of a tubular finger- 5 piece having a jacket of insulation, a thimble supported .Within the finger-piece, having spring fingersat its inner end to bindingly engage a cigar, and a gauze ash-holder to envelop the body of the cigar, threaded to the outer endportion of the thimble.

7 The combination of a perforated tubular finger-piece having a jacket of insulating material, a thimble having spring-fingers extending from one end to bindingly engage a cigar, and tongues stamped inwardly trom the finger-piece and connected to the thimb1e.-

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWARD E. TALIAFERRO.

ERNEST J. GOLDSWORTHY. Witnesses:

HARRY SPBINGHAM,

J. F. Somorrnn. 

